That is (saith Luther) Morero, die out of hand: for there is no man lives that sinnes not. It 〈◊〉〈◊〉 storied of Charles the fourth, King of France, that being one time affected with the sense of his many and great sinnes, he fetcht a deep sigh and said to his wife, now, by the help of God, I will so carry my self all my life long, that I ne∣ver* 1.1 offend him more: which word he had no sooner uttered, but he presently fell down and died. It is not our Saviours 〈◊〉〈◊〉 here to teach, that heaven may be had or earned by keeping the law: for Adam in his innocency, if he had so continued, could not have merited heaven, neither do the Angels, nor could Christ himself, had he been no more then a man. None but a proud Lu∣ciferian would have said, as Vega the Popish Perfectionary did, Coelum gratis non accipiam, I will not go to heaven for nought or on free-cost. But our Saviour here shapes this young Pharisee an answer, according to his question. He would 〈◊〉〈◊〉 be saved by doing, Christ sets him that to do, which no man living can do, and so 〈◊〉〈◊〉 him his errour. He sets him to school to the law, that hard schoolmaster, that sets us such lessons as we are never able to learn, (〈◊〉〈◊〉 Christ our elder-brother teach us, and do our exer∣cise for us) yea brings us forth to God, as that schoolmaster in Li∣vy did all his scholars (the flower of the Romane Nobility) to Hannibal: who if he had not been more mercifull then otherwise, they had all perished.
A commentary or exposition upon the four Evangelists, and the Acts of the Apostles: wherein the text is explained, some controversies are discussed, divers common places are handled, and many remarkable matters hinted, that had by former interpreters been pretermitted. Besides, divers other texts of Scripture which occasionally occur are fully opened, and the whole so intermixed with pertinent histories, as will yeeld both pleasure and profit to the judicious reader. / By John Trapp M. A. Pastour of Weston upon Avon in Gloucestershire.
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- A commentary or exposition upon the four Evangelists, and the Acts of the Apostles: wherein the text is explained, some controversies are discussed, divers common places are handled, and many remarkable matters hinted, that had by former interpreters been pretermitted. Besides, divers other texts of Scripture which occasionally occur are fully opened, and the whole so intermixed with pertinent histories, as will yeeld both pleasure and profit to the judicious reader. / By John Trapp M. A. Pastour of Weston upon Avon in Gloucestershire.
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- Trapp, John, 1601-1669.
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"A commentary or exposition upon the four Evangelists, and the Acts of the Apostles: wherein the text is explained, some controversies are discussed, divers common places are handled, and many remarkable matters hinted, that had by former interpreters been pretermitted. Besides, divers other texts of Scripture which occasionally occur are fully opened, and the whole so intermixed with pertinent histories, as will yeeld both pleasure and profit to the judicious reader. / By John Trapp M. A. Pastour of Weston upon Avon in Gloucestershire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63067.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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If thou wilt enter into life, keep the Commandments]
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S. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Christ. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.